Paper Expressions Rubber Stamping & Video Tutorials

This was AWESOME to receive!

Oh my, what a lovely suprise!!

This wonderful gift of cookies came in the mail from Constant Contact as a thank you for my business!

I had to share ~~ even if only virtually!!

 

 

Now I am off to eat them ! ;o) I am sorry you aren't here to help me!

 

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FREE MINI BOOK TUTORIAL!

Hi everyone,

I created these cute mini books today and I will give a FREE tutorial in my next email newsletter in 1 week.  You have to be subscribed to my email newsletter to receive it!

To subscribe; just fill in your email address in the newsletter area on the top left column, fill out the form and CONFIRM your subscription in the email you will receive.

 

 

 

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Meeting Photos

We had 2 group meetings this weekend! What a great bunch of gals and some fun inspiration!!  

Here are some of the Show at tell project photos from Brenda's Meeting yesterday. I will post the shoe box swap projects from my group meeting tomorrow-

 

 

 

 

 

I love seeing the creativity of other demos at meetings! Thanks gals for sharing it was fun to see you!!

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Spinging Cards

I had a lot of fun yesterday creating these cards for a special order.

I love the way they turned out, the colors are vibrant and bright and some of the layouts even look like it could be a Kite!

This was a VERY easy and fun card to create! However with all the pieces per card, I doubt it will ever become a style I use for a swap card, but you never know!

Before the centers

Creating the Centers

Centers added with a dimensional

The Finished Card!

This concludes an order for 30 specialty made cards- 5 each of 6 designs- phew glad to have it finished!

I love our Punches and coordinating cardstocks!!  I LOVE STAMPIN UP! and all of their coordinating elements that help me to finish a project and make it look spectacular! I also love that there is NO stamping in this card, the inside has a white cardstock base so the user can write or stamp anything that they want. It is a VERY multipurpose card!

In this project I used a retired set of SU designer papers layerd on Pear Pizzaz and then on Poppy Parade cardstocks. They match perfectly!  I  used the bowmaker I sell in my vendors booths and here at classes to create these adorable perfect bows!

Have a wonderfully Creative Friday everyone!

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FREE DVD "The WoodCarver" $14.99 value

Hello everyone!!

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I am very excited to share this review with you and give you and anyone you know the chance to win this FREE DVD for your family to watch! Directions to enter will be below.

 

I thoroughly loved this movie. I have to admit that several parts of it hit close to home in my previous marriage. As Matthew lashes out at the world becuase of his parents separation and impending divorce, he meets John the Woodcarver. Someone who will listen and spend time with Matt. They begin working together to repair damages for the local church created by Matt in a fit of frustration. 

I like the lessons I learned by all of the characters because they can also be learned by each of us. I loved the warm feeling I received as I watched the movie and the message that that no matter; what Faith in God will pull you through.

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Sneak Peak at Next Years Stamp Set

Hi everyone!

At Leadership one of the freebies we were given during General Session was a fabulous Stamp Set called "Everything Eleanor" and I have been using it to create  special order birthday cards. I cased this idea from Stampin Connection (my fav place for inspiration by other demos)  And I really like how it turned out.

But first, a cell phone photo from Valentine's day of my little granddaughter Madison! Gramma's get to brag right? She is just a doll, I am so sad she is 2200 miles away. I miss all my kids and grandkids and step kids and stepgrandkids so MUCH! It stinks to be so far away just becuase of Kay's job. But, we are blessed to have this job!

She will be 2, at the end of May.  I love to hear her sweet little voice on the phone especially the "I Yuh You's"  ;o)

Now on to the birthday card project!

This gorgeous stamp set will be available in the upcoming 2012-2013 catalog!

• I cut my Whisper White cardstock at 4 1/4" by 11 and using my Simply Score tool I scored and folded it
• Stamped my Old Olive Green leaf design on each card front
• I punched the front edge with the Eyelet Border Punch #119853
• Then I ran just the cardfront through the Big Shot #113439 using the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder #120175
• I set these aside and began to stamp the images as you see in the upper photo using Night of Navy Ink #102977
  
• I used our 2 3/8" Scallop Punch #118874 to punch out the circular image- fit perfectly!
• The Happy Birthday from Bring on the Cake #121958 was stamped in 2 parts, I inked and stamped the Happy first and washed it then inked and stamped the Birthday. I used my Night of Navy Stampin Spot for this- works perfectly! 
• I then punched out the Happy Birthday using #119850  1 3/4" Circle Punch
• Using our Tea Stain from the Distressing Essentials Kit # 118762, I sponged the edges of each piece, the front and even a bit on the embossing areas to give it a bit of depth and antique look.
• Now I just used Dimensionals #104430 and Snail Adhesive # 104332 to assemble it.
• It went pretty quickly while watching the movie Legacy!

I am excited to create a scrapbook layout with this stamp set soon!

Have a creative day!

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Creating A New Scrapbook

Hi everyone!

Yesterday afternoon I decided to use the Smooches Download kit for My Digital Studio and put together our Leadership 2012 book. I started with an 8x8 but I didn't like how big the bleed area around the pages were so I converted it to a 12x12 and I like it much better.  I can hardly wait to get it finished (journaling is all that is left) and send it off to the printers!!!

Here is the front cover of the book.  As I Finish pages I will share a few more in the next few days.

 

 

I will make the photo a bit larger also, but I wanted to show you how cute these Smooches Downloads are! I love that this kit is pretty much a no brainer because the templates are all ready to use. I just added my photos and journaling! Oh, did I mention all the coordinating digi stamps that came with it and embellishments? WOWZA! Creating with this kit is going to be awesome in other projects becuase of all the fun images and embellishments!

I did have to create about 6 extra pages from templates to fit in all the photos I wanted giving me about 33 pages in my scrapbook.  I am pretty happy with the colors of these pages because they so remind me of San Antonio and all the bright colors everywhere!

The kit is a pre-order for Demonstrators only right now and will be available to the public after April 1st.  A wonderful perk of being a demonstrator is that we can purchase all new products in advance of anyone else!

I hope you are having good weather and are filled with creativity today.

I am not sure if I am feeling much better, just really tired of all the sitting around. ;o/

Thanks for stopping by!

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Scrapbooking Crop Photos

Saturday was the annual Pleasant Hope Crop

I love to go and have a vendor booth because I have become friends with so many of the lovely ladies who come to crop.

Here are photos of our booth before it became busy-

 

 hee hee, I caught Kay snacking! lolol

We became so busy teaching a make and take every hour on the hour throughout the afternoon, we didnt get as many photos as we would have liked

here are the make and takes we provided-

This cute lion is from Fox and Friends stampset and they created an envelope using the new Diagonal Score Pad for the Simply Scored Tool-  sold 5 of them!

This cute fun and springy card was made using the Mixed Bunch Stamp set # 125537 and the coordinating Blossom Punch # 125603

These cute critters were made my hubby Kay and taught by him also! They use a variety of our punches and are really fun to create!

I created the printed background of this 8.5 x 11 page using My Digital Studio and we used our Oval ad round Punches to create the bunny and eggs! They loved it!  Making Hybrid pages is simple and fun!

here are a couple photos of one of the games Lori had the gals play-  the theme of the day was Storybook. several women wore costumes and names were drawn for this fun Porridge Game.  They had to use tweezers to pick the brads out of Mama, Papa and Baby Bears porridge. The gal with the most at the end of 1 min 30 seconds won a great prize donated by one of the vendors!

I love attending these kinds of scrapbooking events, and I admit it, this one is my very favorite each year.  Thanks to all my cropping friends for your love, support and friendships!

I am not feeling much better, our weather is windy and I think a nap is coming soon. Being sick with a sinus infection has really taken a toll on my productivity and energy level.

Have a fabulous and creative day!

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Sinus Infection

Yes lucky me, I have a sinus infection. Started last week and yesterday I had Kay take me to urgent care, 2 prescriptions and a steriod later I am home being a slug on the couch.

I will post some photos from Saturday's scrapbooking crop on Tuesday Afternoon.

I just wanted you all to know I am not ignoring my blog!  I have been working with My Digital Studio and creating a list of my inventory of downloads, downloading some new downloads that are a pre-order of the Smooches line. As a demo we can pre order new items 30 days before anyone else!

So I plan to create a few things with them while some more slugging on the couch tomorrow!

I cancelled ALL CLASSES this week up to Thursday, in case you missed my email today.

Have a creative week!

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A Great Video- makes you stop and think!

 

 

 

 

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